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Page 87
... ery soon ( by your hands ) an ode to his own tooth , high Pindaric upon stilts , which one must be a etter scholar than he is to understand a line of , and the very best scholars will understand but a little. GRAY'S LETTERS . 87.
... ery soon ( by your hands ) an ode to his own tooth , high Pindaric upon stilts , which one must be a etter scholar than he is to understand a line of , and the very best scholars will understand but a little. GRAY'S LETTERS . 87.
Page 92
... and alegia The Epistle to Mr. Eckardt , the Painter . See Walpole's Works , vol . i . p . 19 . + Lord Hervey . Monody on the Death of Queen Caroline . The called it any thing rather than a Pindaric . 92 GRAY'S LETTERS .
... and alegia The Epistle to Mr. Eckardt , the Painter . See Walpole's Works , vol . i . p . 19 . + Lord Hervey . Monody on the Death of Queen Caroline . The called it any thing rather than a Pindaric . 92 GRAY'S LETTERS .
Page 93
Thomas Gray. The called it any thing rather than a Pindaric . town is an owl , if it don't like Lady Mary , and I am surprised at it : we here are owls enough to think her eclogues + very bad ; but that I did not wonder at . Our present ...
Thomas Gray. The called it any thing rather than a Pindaric . town is an owl , if it don't like Lady Mary , and I am surprised at it : we here are owls enough to think her eclogues + very bad ; but that I did not wonder at . Our present ...
Page 129
... Pindaric method without its use ; though , as he justly says , when formed in long stanzas , it does not fully succeed in point of effect on the ear : For there was nothing which he more disliked than that chain of irregular stanzas ...
... Pindaric method without its use ; though , as he justly says , when formed in long stanzas , it does not fully succeed in point of effect on the ear : For there was nothing which he more disliked than that chain of irregular stanzas ...
Page 166
... Pindaric Odes just then published This was written August 25 , 1757. An extract from a letter of Mr. Gray to Dr. Wharton , dated October 7 , 1757 AYA of Mason's ) who is a great reader . She. 166 GRAY'S LETTERS . To Mr Hurd Criticisms on ...
... Pindaric Odes just then published This was written August 25 , 1757. An extract from a letter of Mr. Gray to Dr. Wharton , dated October 7 , 1757 AYA of Mason's ) who is a great reader . She. 166 GRAY'S LETTERS . To Mr Hurd Criticisms on ...
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